Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said the bill “invests in the health and nutrition of American children . . . by expanding their access to farmer’s markets and organic produce.
Senator Tom Harkin believes the bill helps with the health and nutrition of American children by expanding their access to farmers markets and organic produce.
It’s a movement that is gradually reshaping the business of growing and supplying food to Americans.
The Locavore Movement is starting to attract attention by reshaping the business industry of growing and supplying food.
Small farmers will be able to get up to 75% of their organic certification costs reimbursed, and some of them can obtain crop insurance
Farmers are able to get their costs reimbursed and receive crop insurance. This shows strong support for the locavore movement
Predictably, the overwhelming bulk of its $290 billion would still go to powerful agribusiness interests in the form of subsidies for growing corn, soybeans, and cotton. But $2.3 billion was set aside this year for specialty crops, such as the eggplants, strawberries, or salad greens that are grown by exactly these small, mostly organic farmers. That’s a big bump-up from the $100 million that was earmarked for such things in the previous legislation
Because of the dramatic shift in american tastes the government is now recognizing that some of the money that goes to the powerful agribusiness should be put into the small, mostly organic farms. This movement is gradually reshaping the business of growing and supplying food.